yet praises a capitalist society and encourages racism by forcing stereotypes and misrepresentation of racial groups? How do you combat those outside influences and stay steadfast AND not judge others for their racism although it feels like certain racial groups are being singled out??
2007-09-24 03:30:03 · 13 answers · asked by Benny 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dear Benny
Racism is the result of three human needs:
1. A need for speed and convenience. In today's fast-paced world, we look for the fastest and easiest way to get things done.
2. A need for order. We want a place for everything and everything in its place. This includes people. Have you ever met somebody and walked away saying, "I just can't figure them out"? This made you feel very uncomfortable, didn't it?
3. A need for esteem. Although nobody likes a person who thinks they are better than everybody else, everybody needs to feel like they are better than somebody else. If you thought you were the lowest person on the face of the planet in every way, you probably could not live with yourself.
Now put these together and you understand why we look for the quickest and easiest way to judge others as worse than we are. It's not right, it's not logical and it's not moral but that's the way most humans work.
How do you stay steadfast and maintain your objectivity in such an environment? By recognizing this behavior for what it is-a type of voluntary ignorance and tunnel vision. Most people do not want all the facts. Just give me a 15-second synopsis and let me get on with my life. If you are comfortable with yourself, you will understand that nobody knows enough about you to judge you except you.
Jesus said we should love others as much as we love ourselves. If you are good enough for God to love (and you are), you are good enough for you to love. Once you understand this, you do not need to put others down to build yourself up. And you now have the strength to stay steadfast and nonjudgmental in a judgmental world.
Best always
Brother Ron
2007-09-24 04:15:58 · answer #1 · answered by Brother Ron 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So, our society "encourages racism by forcing stereotypes and misrepresentation of racial groups?"
Quite the little socialist, arent you?
You want racism? Go to Japan, or China. (I've been to both.) Or go to Iran and watch them throw a burka on you.
America has done more to bring about racial equality than any other nation in history. You need to pull your head out of your liberal professor's a** and go see the real world.
2007-09-24 03:35:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Equality and freedom are overly used terms.
Equality and freedom are two things in this society which we don't have - as much as the well intentioned (and the bad intentioned) might like to tell you.
So, to answer your question - you can neither feel free or equal because you are not, in today's society you are judged and pigeon holed from the day you are born to the day you die - the only thing you can do is value yourself and hopefully try to value others too.
2007-09-24 03:39:14 · answer #3 · answered by HP 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know just what you mean! I am a White man living in a VERY predominently Black neighborhood. It seems that whenever I even go to the grocery store there are people looking at me hatefully, and glaring with that look that says: "Hey! You don't belong in OUR neighborhood!"
The only relief we get is when we visit a Black church, where we are invariably welcomed lovingly as Christians.
2007-09-24 03:38:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Girlfriend, that is the question.
So much of fundamentalism is wrapped up in capitalism and racism that I don't think they could really exist w/o each other.
Personally I try to stay away from fundamentalists as much as possible, while still considering them with love and acting as if they are my brothers and sisters in Christ -- which they are.
Find some real Christians who are not fundamentalists, is my suggestion to you, and claim them as your spiritual community. Personally, my 2 communities are the Catholic Church and the Quakers. Minimum of fundamentalists there, in general.
2007-09-24 03:34:11 · answer #5 · answered by Acorn 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Too actual, look at the McCarthy music 'could the bible be banned' for a musical discourse on the difficulty. my very own ethical code stops me from doing incorrect, and that i kinda was hoping non secular peoples did to boot, now I study it rather is all so they might circulate to heaven - how egocentric are you lot?
2016-10-05 06:48:07 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was once told to imagine a bubble around myself and my own personal world...and not to let anything intrude on that.
The world will never be perfect and all we can do is the best we can. We do not have to acknowledge the ignorance of others....
blessings
)o(
trinity
2007-09-24 03:36:27 · answer #7 · answered by trinity 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With great strength and determination. If you touch one person with the realization that stereotypes and racism are wrong, you have done a great thing.
2007-09-24 03:37:22 · answer #8 · answered by Vintage Glamour 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We should stop placing RELIGION on a pedestal and give attention to who attention is due. We give to much attention to RELIGION and not who the RELIGION includes (GOD)
2007-09-24 03:51:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We all have to live in this world too.
2007-09-24 03:34:30 · answer #10 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋